The European Magazine, and London Review, Band 15

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Philological Society of London, 1789

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Seite 68 - ... disconnecting the authority to command service, from the power of animating it by reward ; and for allotting to the prince all the invidious duties of government, without the means of softening them to the public, by any one act of grace, favour, or benignity.
Seite 114 - ... feed it more than five weeks after this period ; so that, if a cuckoo should be ready with an egg much sooner than the time pointed out, not a single...
Seite 18 - If she were to do this in the nest of a bird which produced a large egg, and consequently a large nestling, the young cuckoo would probably find an...
Seite 324 - I need not add my earnest recommendation to the parliament and people of Ireland, to continue to cultivate the harmony of the two kingdoms, which in their mutual perfect freedom will find the...
Seite 17 - The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The little animal, with the assistance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the bird...
Seite 68 - In the state of deep distress, in which the prince, and the whole royal family were involved, by the heavy calamity which has fallen upon the king, and at a moment when government, deprived of its chief energy and...
Seite 101 - As to Jortin, whether I look back to his verse, to his prose, to his critical, or to his theological works, there are few authors to whom I am so much indebted for rational entertainment, or for solid instruction.
Seite 68 - The Prince of Wales learns from Mr. Pitt's letter, that the proceedings in parliament are now in a train which enables Mr. Pitt, according to the intimation in his former...
Seite 400 - ... into my hands, ought to give me an entire credit for the veracity of every fact I affirm or deny. But if they fail with regard to me, it is at least in my power to be true to myself.
Seite 339 - OLord, thou hast searched me out, and known me : thou knowest my down-sitting, and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thoughts long before. 2 Thou art about my path, and about my bed : and spiest out all my ways.

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